#3 Cesc Fabregas to Barcelona for £24.5m
Cesc Fabregas was sold his youth days by Spanish giants FC Barcelona who bought him back in 2011 after eight years in the English capital with Arsenal where he joined as a 16-year-old and eventually went on to become club captain.
The Spaniard’s move to the Nou Camp came after his highly impressive tenure with the Gunners where he established himself as one of the club’s most creative midfielders ever. In fact, statistics from five years before his departure from the Emirates revealed that the player created around 466 goal scoring chances, mustered 86 assists and scored 48 goals, a number better than Xavi and Andres Iniesta at that point despite both of them playing more games.
Fabregas joined a Barcelona side that had won three La Liga titles in a row and two Champions League titles in three years and made around 96 appearances for the club across all competitions before completing a controversial return to England with Chelsea in 2014. He has already made over 100 appearances and won two league titles with the Blues.
